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Word: darbhanga (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poor to bid was the third Bourbon sister, 61-year-old Marie Alice Ildephonse Marguerite. Princess Del Prete, whom Don Jaime cut off with 12,000 francs a year. For ?15,000 the necklace passed into the hands of jewel-fancying Sir Kamesh-war Singh, Maharajah of Darbhanga, whose bodyguard of eight tall, turbaned, immaculate Indians has been one of London's sights since the Coronation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Queen's Necklace | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

...thanks to Editor Blanchard for straightening out the Brothers Shem Shur for TIME. Last week genial Brother Joodha had a plowed field at Darbhanga smoothed and 30,000 Darbhangans stood around to watch the Houston-Mt. Everest Expedition drop in from Purnea by plane for a ceremonial visit with H. R. H. After a sumptuous banquet and many speeches of congratulation, he next day paraded the mountain flyers to the field with a 37-elephant procession, silver and gold carriages, a monster drum and native band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 24, 1933 | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

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